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# Subvenciones (subsidies)
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A challenge with the National Subsidies Database (Base de Datos Nacional de Subvenciones)
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| GitHub | https://github.com/JaimeObregon/subvenciones |
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| Discord | https://discord.gg/r2ytSa782D |
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| Original idea | https://twitter.com/JaimeObregon/status/1507693311422877697 (thread in Spanish) |
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## The starting point
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The spanish Ministry of Finance operates the [National System of Publication of Subsidies and State Grants](https://www.infosuvenciones.es) (Sistema Nacional de Publicidad de Subvenciones y Ayudas Públicas). It is a web portal that gathers all call for proposals and public grants.
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![Official portal homepage](docs/assets/infosubvenciones-home.jpg)
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This website is an initiative in favour of transparency, but has notable limitations.
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## The problem
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The official portal provides a poor interface for accessing the data that, however, has a great value for transparency:
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1. **The search tool is rudimentary**, with a user experience with room for improvement. The portal, apparently, does not allow simple uses such as, for example, gathering and exploring the totality of the grants given to a specific beneficiary. The ergonomy of the system is poor, with a tedious user interface, links that expire and therefore cannot be shared...
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1. **The data queries are very slow.** The mere loading of an arbitrary page may involve waiting more than 2 minutes. This dinamites the citizenship's access to the data, as in practice the queries are so slow that it turns out to be impossible. The citizen gives up.
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1. **The data cannot be downloaded.** Partial downloads are available, but the portal does not provide a mechanism to download the complete set of data. This disallows the _offline_ use of the data and the application of advanced analysis methods.
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## The challenge
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Can we, as civil society, make it better? Can we, as a country, provide us with a better tool to access and publish these public data?
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The challenge consists in getting all of the public data from the official portal and create an alternative tool to explore them in a useful, effective and creative way.
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And make it cooperatively, joining efforts and capabilities around a collaborative open source project to which everyone who wants to can get involved and contribute.
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## How to contribute
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`[WIP]`
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- **If you are a programmer**...
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- **If you are an expert in public grants**...
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- **If you are a designer**...
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- **If you work in the public administration**, for example as an auditor, you can tell us how to ...
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- **If you are a journalist**...
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- **If you are an specialist in data protection**...
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- **If you are a lawyer**...
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- **If you are something else**, go ahead! Take a look and collaborate in what you like.
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## Next steps
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`[WIP]`
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1. Finish this intro
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1. Organize the next steps
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1. The repo can be moved away from JaimeObregon and into a more neutral place, so the project is not associated with someone specific.
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## Legal framework
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`[WIP]`
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...
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## Contributors
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Go ahead, participate and add your name to the list! You can find it [in the main README (spanish version)](README.md).
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